Texas Lottery Veteran Recognition: Gwen Bingham

The retired U.S. Army three-star general will be honored when Texas Football hosts Kansas State.

The military construct provided shape to Gwen Bingham's early life and pursuits. Her father served more than 20 years in the United States Army, and Bingham spent most of her childhood and adolescence in Texas, where he was stationed in Killeen and San Antonio, before moving to Alabama for high school and college.

Bingham received an ROTC scholarship to the University of Alabama, and she had a mind to serve out the four years of her service obligation and "not a day longer." But that built-in military frame opened up into a pathway that proved to be more of a progressive calling than determined…